The Host
By Myah Dalton
A riveting dystopian novel with dreamed up characters, Melanie and Wanderer, written into something amazing by Stephanie Myer becomes the extraordinary book, “The Host.” In a land thousands of years from now there is an earth, among this earth is a civilization occupied by human bodies, but their minds are occupied by peacekeeping, for lack of a better word, aliens. They call themselves souls and they live in, basically, a utopian society, where arguing, fighting, dishonesty, and aggression are a foreign topic to the souls, but there is a resistance, a group of humans who are fighting against them. Melanie Stryder is a part of this resistance and when she gets caught, Wanderer is the host inserted inside to find out where the resistance is located. As Melanie strives to keep her loves ones safe, she forces past memories of her lover Jared and her little brother Jamie into Wanderer’s thoughts. Soon, Wanderer is yearning for the relationships that she has never experienced and feels a new desire to protect them also. Melanie and Wanderer abandon the city in search for the love they’re both dying to have. Stephanie showed me that even in the most desperate times; love can fight the hardest battles.
As Melanie and Wanderer travel into the deserts of Arizona, they only have one thing keeping them motivated, Jared and Jaime. With only as much water as they can carry on their one back and two granola bars they venture. The only thing they have to go by are the lines Melanie’s Uncle Jeb drew for her so long ago. Unfortunately, the thirstier and hungrier they become, the more their determination ceases. The last tear never comes as the heat dries it before it has the chance to fall. They rest at the only tree in the desert and accept death for what it is.